Selby District Renaissance STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK Yorkshire Forward: Victoria House 2 Victoria Place Leeds, LS11 5AE 0113 394 9600 - www.yorkshire-forward.com Selby District Council: Civic Centre Portholme Road Selby YO8 4SB 01757 705101 - www.selby.gov.uk Consultants Team led by URBED: 10 Little Lever Street Manchester M1 1HR 0161 200 5500 - www.urbed.com also 19 Store Street, London, WC1E 7DH Selby District Renaissance STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK The launch of the Selby District Charter September 2005 Foreword The town teams The renaissance team Town teams representing each of the three towns have now been meeting This Strategic Development Framework together with the for more than a year working first on the Selby District Charter and on this District Charter has been produced for the Town Teams by Strategic Development Framework. Over the years scores of people have been a consultancy team commissioned by Yorkshire Forward involved in the teams. working in partnership with Selby District Council. The ren- aissance team has included the following people: Yorkshire Forward: Barra Mac Ruairí, Dr. Jemma Basham, John Shepherd Selby District Council: Eileen Scothern, Terry Heselton, Neil Skinner, Peter Brown URBED: David Rudlin, Stephanie Fischer, Nick Dodd, Dr Nicholas Falk, Sarah Jarvis, Helene Rudlin, Debbie Fuller, Selby Town Team Sherburn Town Team Tadcaster Town Team Zoe Holden, Matthew Ludlam, Lorenza Casini, Vassiliki Kravva and David Suls URBED’s local representative in Selby - Blue Wilson Alan Baxter & Associates: Robert Green, David Taylor, Sophie Noble Camlin Lonsdale: Jessica Bryne-Daniel, Victoria Berryman Tomlinson Feeley: Michelle Tomlinson Town Team chairs: Sherburn: Peter Lambert Tadcaster: Sir Bryan Askew Selby: Michael Dyson (previously Alan Townend) Our proposals within the SDF will need to be compliant with national, regional and local planning strategies and policies. It is accepted that the proposals contained within this document may not meet these at the present time given this document’s status as a 5-year vision statement. 5 Yorkshire Forward believes that the towns and cities of York- shire are the key to its future. We further believe that the key to the future success of the region’s towns and cities lies with the Foreword communities and businesses that live and work in them. The Yorkshire Forward Renaissance programme has developed Charters for 19 of Yorkshire’s towns and cities. In each case we have worked with a Town Team set up, initially to guide the work on the The Selby District Charter was Charter, and subsequently as a focus for implementation of the launched in September last year. 25-year vision that the Charter sets out. The launch culminated in an excel- lent event in Selby Abbey where there An important step on the route to the implementation of the Charter was a real sense of excitement in the is the Strategic Development Framework (SDF) such as this document for the Selby District. This SDF sets out more detail of the shared vision set out in the Charter. projects required to implement the renaissance vision. This docu- This vision has been carried forward ment does this through sections on three of the most important in this document, which provides themes in the Selby District Charter; the future of Energy, Water and much more detail and sets out a Business and also includes masterplans for each of the three towns. range of realistic projects that we can all work to implement. The masterplans develop the core aim of the Yorkshire Forward programme to harness the power of place by tapping into the passion and enthusiasm of local people. The projects set out in I would, once again, like to thank all this document include the creative use of architecture, urban de- of the people who have contributed sign and landscaping to transform the quality of the public realm to this piece of work. It is more than of the district, the streets, parks and public spaces of the towns. just a consultant’s report, it is a vision This is achieved partly through public realm works - a theme that generated collectively by the people runs through all of the renaissance towns. However, the SDF is also about the future growth of the three towns and where new housing of the Selby District. We may not all should be planned. It is also about the future economy of the district agree with everything in these pages, and how, following the closure of the mines, changes in the energy but we can, I believe, sign up to the industry can be harnessed as an engine for sustainable growth. exciting vision and agenda for change that it sets out. I look forward to work- The process of creating this SDF has been creative, collaborative ing with the town teams and all the and argumentative, we would expect nothing less. I hope and believe that the investment of time and effort that everyone made stakeholders involved in this process over the last twelve months will now start to generate a return as we to make it a reality. work together to implement the projects in this document. Mark Crane Barra Mac Ruairí Leader, Selby District Council Head of Renaissance Towns & Cities Yorkshire Forward Contents Foreword 5 Part 4: Tadcaster 84 Introduction 8 Tadcaster masterplan 8 Regional Renaissance 8 History of Tadcaster 88 Contents The district today 0 The town today 90 A 5-year vision The concept 9 Tadcaster 14 The plan 9 Sherburn 16 Livable Streets: High Street 98 Selby 18 Quality environments: Car Park and Kirkgate 10 Quality environments: The Valley 10 Part 1: Water 20 Smart Growth: Mill Lane 108 A district shaped by water Human influences Part 5: Sherburn 110 The threat Sherburn masterplan 112 The concept 8 History of Sherburn 114 The masterplan 0 The town today 116 Flood defence The concept 118 Yorkshire Water Park The plan 120 Tidal barrage 38 Livable Streets: Low Street 122 Quality Environments: Village Square 124 Part 2: Economy 40 Smart Growth: Sissons’ Depot 128 The district’s history Smart Growth: Gascoigne Wood 130 The strategy Smart Growth: Eco-Village 132 Soil; the new oil Quality Environments: Country Park 134 The plan 48 A ladder of innovation 50 Part 6: Selby 138 Selby District Science Park 5 Selby masterplan 140 Gascoigne Wood Biopole Centre 5 History of Selby 142 Training and skills 5 Town centre health check 146 The town today 148 Part 3: Energy 58 The concept 15 Context 0 The plan 15 Timeline Revitalising the town centre 15 Energy Renaissance Living Streets: Gowthorpe to New Street 158 Home Comfort 8 Quality Environments: Waterfront Park 162 Growing Opportunities 70 Smart Growth: Station Quarter 166 Community Heating 74 Smart Growth: Holme Lane 170 Future Coal 78 Developing Eco-industries 8 8 introduction 9 elby District sits at the heart This economic success is egy reinforced by the Government’s of the Yorkshire and the Hum- closely linked to the quality of life Northern Way policy, however, Sber region. Situated midway in the region. This is based on every- the cities are nothing without their between the great cities of Leeds, thing from the bright lights of the big hinterland and without the network of York, Hull and Sheffield, it has a cen- cities, the charm and character of industrial and market towns across tral role to play in the future prosper- the regions smaller towns and the the region. ity and quality of life of the region. tranquillity of the countryside and the Places like the Selby District, its Yorkshire and the Humber has three national parks on the region’s towns and its countryside contribute a GDP of £ Billion. If it were a doorstep. significantly to the quality of life of country this would rank it in the top The future success of the region the region. The district provides third of the world’s national econo- will depend not on its industries or excellent places to live, work and mies. It is home to five of the world’s its natural resources but its people. visit and contributes hugely to the top ten companies and the regional The regions that will prosper in the appeal of the region. It is also vital economy is growing faster than the future will be those that produce economically, accommodating mod- European average. Manufacturing is and retain highly skilled people. ern manufacturing and distribution, predicted to grow by more than % This brings together the economy, energy production and food produc- over the next 0 years, the region educational institutions and quality of tion. The Selby District Charter and has one of the fastest growing IT life and is the essence of the renais- this SDF are therefore designed to sectors in the UK and the largest sance programme. secure the renaissance of the towns concentration of food research and The major cities may be the en- of the Selby District as part of the production. gine of the region’s growth, a strat- renaissance of the region. 0 ork on the Selby District beyond the reach of many of the degrees. Selby Town is the exception Charter has included people who work in the major local to this and in 00 one ward was Wdetailed studies of the dis- industries who therefore have to within the 0% most deprived na- trict, its people, economy, environ- commute into the area. tionally (although this had improved ment and transport links. This work In a similar way Tadcaster on the three wards in this position in is summarised in the Charter. relates to York, although its role as 000). The level of qualifications in The district is home to almost a commuter centre has been limited Selby is also nearly half the average ,500 people, which is just .% by its lack of railway station and the for the district.